Aggro Icon

[Rayle]

Boy do I hate the excuse "everybody does it we should too".

SE tried doing it their own way and we wound up with this.

[Totobi]

Some of the most fun i've had in this game was exploring, and finding out which monsters aggro, which can kick my butt, and which are friendly and will follow you about. Why do we need aggro markers? There is no penalty for dying =/

[gifthorse]

Just like the poor newbies experiance in ffxi? he nearly did quit the game after being stuck in jeuno. Alot of ppl have.

I like how ppl keep bringing up ffxi but hasn't played it recently. Or else you would know the community isn't like it used to be. The only help you get is "go to website x" Heck even from an LS you get this.

Also even if you know something aggros you still need to figure out away to avoid it. All the icon does is just shows ppl what aggros.

again like I'm gonna say be ready to teach newbies how aggro works if it gets removed.

Are you seriously kidding me? You think I am ever going to need to teach newbies how aggro works?

Oh but of course, because in the real world if they saw an ogre with flaming skin and sharm teeth and claws they would just walk up to it and say hello as a means of avoidance? How dumb do you think newbies are?

Every single aggressive monster in this game, be it an ant, a pudding, an ogre, or a hyppocerf, each and every single one shows symptoms of aggressive behaviour. They all look threatening! And that is how you tell them apart from a gentle creature such as a marmot which is small and furry. An aggro indicator is just redundant.

Anyway, if a newbie managed to get to Jeuno unscathed then he obvioudsly knew how to avoid aggro mobs. Besides, that is such an isolated incident that it hardly even applies.

[jwang]

Quite frankly, I loved exploring the countryside and figuring out if things were aggressive or not on my own. It creates some of the most hilarious, as well as hair-raising, experiences. After all, it's not much of an adventure if you already know what's dangerous or not, is it? Half of that fun is the risk! So please, give us the option to turn off the aggressive mob icon.

[Aveline]

I would also like the ability to at least turn off the aggro icon.

Side note: It's kind of funny that in a game the developers say they are working to make more scary, they give you a giant red indicator as to which monsters might attack. Hand-holding much? I say take out the giant red balloons next to monster names and bring the thrill of discovery back to the game. ^_^b

[Laiferr]

I would welcome the option to turn it off, simply because personally I don't need it and find it ugly. I can see how others would find it useful though. For the argument of 'be prepared to explain to newbs if they get rid of it' ...before they had it, did you find yourself constantly explaining to newbies what agros? I've been playing since launch and I can't say I have once had a newbie ask me what agros. They run into something, die, laugh and carry on with the game. If someone quits over something like that then that's fine, they're clearly way too stressed of a person!

[Nephera]

They all look threatening! And that is how you tell them apart from a gentle creature such as a marmot which is small and furry. An aggro indicator is just redundant.
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what about the vultures. Vultures are non predatory birds.

[Shika]

Aggro indication is a standard feature of modern MMOs. What other MMOs are you playing that don't offer this? FFXI? We've already established that this ISN'T FFXI.

Playing Devil's advocate... the people that don't necessarily like or want the aggro indicator could also argue that FFXIV isn't other MMOs. Just saying.

[Jynx]

I personally dislike the agro indicator, takes away from my enjoyment of exploring. I still think I am one of few people who know Efts Agro to sound and if you stop moving they wont actually agro you unless you run into them. The monsters have so many unique quirks built into them.

From the above mentioned Efts method of actually agroing you. "if you stop moving when they pick up there head and look a you they will go back to being non-agressive and then you can easilly run by or use your DoL skills almost next to them.

To funguars poison cloud only being released if you hit them when they are puffed up, all sorts of things that people don't apreciate in the long run it seems.

If anything I would at least want the option to turn it off because I find the icon super annoying.

[Baelari]

I think the aggro indicator should be displayed with the difficulty indicator in the target widget. Perhaps just a red border on the difficulty icon, or a small red dot next to it. Right now, it's just ugly, and obtrusive.

Also, I'd like to see it disappear from other people's leve mobs, and mobs I'm too high to aggro.